The Olympics are built for the weird, the fun, the unique and the inspiring. In search of all that, reporter Joel Reichenberger and I set out to attend as many events as we possibly could Thursday. We wanted to find the people and sports that make the Olympics what they are.

Arielle Gold’s Olympics came to an end in devastating fashion Wednesday as the Steamboat Springs snowboarder was forced to withdraw from the afternoon’s women’s half-pipe competition after sustaining a shoulder injury in training before the qualification round.

Let the games begin before passing judgment. Could this end up being the worst Olympics in history? Possibly, but we don’t know now. Watch the narrative shift. Things will get better, we just have to have patience.